Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choosing the capital site on the island of Trinidad, a special committee spent more than two months touring the island, finally selected the inactive U.S. Naval Base on Chaguaramas Bay, eight miles from Port of Spain on the island's northwest tip. The site was one of the bases leased to the U.S. by Britain in 1940 in exchange for 50 vintage destroyers. Deactivated in 1955, the base has been carefully maintained. The existence of such readymade facilities was one of the base's most attractive points to the site-seekers. At week's end U.S. officials...
When reports linking cigarette smoking to cancer first came out. at least 1,500,000 of the 38 million U.S. smokers forsook the habit, said the Agriculture Department. Since then, most of those who quit "probably have resumed, mainly using filter-tip cigarettes." Commented a tobaccoman: "The cancer scare is good for filters...
...last week as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Todd's message: "Showmanship has left show business. Everywhere there are businessmen who are better showmen than we who say we're in show business." Though ex-Pitchman Todd is no man to tell a tip (crowd) what it does not wish to hear, there was no doubt that he had a point. As U.S. business gets bigger and more competitive, there is no business like showy business. To make even a small noise takes a big drum...
...learned we learned from another kid." Smith is appalled to know that "kids in the Little League cry when they lose a game." What sensible man would deny that it was a healthier day when the brat ballplayer, unwashed and ununiformed, never cried "unless he caught a foul tip with the end of his finger...
Undigestive Process. In Southampton, England. Waiter Kyriacos Miltiadou was fined $28 for knocking down and kicking a diner who failed to tip...